Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite Kemp's voice on minority issues, Colin Powell's support and polls that showed about 30 % of blacks identified themselves as conservatives on issues such as school prayer, school vouchers and criminal justice, the Republicans were unable to improve upon historical support levels from African-American voters.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite these genre blending elements, wuxia is primarily a historical genre of fiction.

Despite many popular folktales, historical accounts of the ninja are scarce.

Despite its persistence, however, it is not known whether the account is historical or fabricated.

Despite the confusion of dates the Roman Conquest is the first of 103 historical events in the book characterised as a Good Thing, " since the Britons were only natives at that time ".

Despite crediting the Chicago Historical Society for assistance with historical research, much of the film is fictionalized.

Despite similarities, most Tolkien ' authorities ' are wary of drawing analogies between his fictional works and the historical narratives they so strongly resemble.

Despite popular claims that LeMay advanced the notion of preventive nuclear war, the historical record indicates LeMay actually advocated justified preemptive nuclear war.

Despite this, the silent final S has never been universal, and other ethnic and historical influences tend to argue over it.

Despite this, Benabarre continues to be a significant historical and cultural center of attraction.

Despite this link, and the historical ties, there is no University of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic level.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite earlier strong feelings against the BBC, he lectured for a BBC historical series in 1961 and made more series for it in 1963, 1976, 1977 and 1978.

Despite modern man's claims to be nonreligious, he ultimately cannot find value in the linear progression of historical events ; even modern man feels the " Terror of history ": " Here too [...] there is always the struggle against Time, the hope to be freed from the weight of ' dead Time ,' of the Time that crushes and kills.

Despite the liberties Chariton took with historical fact, he clearly aimed to place his story in a period well before his own lifetime.

Despite Berg's approach, most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention.

Despite the use of magic or other fantastic elements such as dragons, the world is normally presented as one that would function normally, one in which people could actually live, making economic, historical, and ecological sense.

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately and severely departed from historical accounts of first century Judea and Biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not meaning to be historically accurate.

Despite being the capital, the city is not the state ’ s main tourist attraction, eclipsed by Manzanillo and Comala, as it lacks major cultural and historical sites.

Despite the paucity of historical evidence for the existence of such a right, cultural references to the custom abound.

Despite questions of its source, the prayer carries out an important function in the narrative as a whole.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite his influence in the financial world ( at least one source called him the most powerful American financier since J. P. Morgan ), Milken was an intensely private man who shunned publicity.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licenses, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite its advantages, the concept of implementing the game logic in a separate scripting language and writing an interpreter for it was soon dropped ( even by John Carmack who had implemented this concept ) because of the overall inflexibility of an interpreted language, the increasingly complex game logic and the fact that the game logic could be packaged into a native Dynamic link library whose source code could be released to the mod community.

Despite its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices and in solid-state lasers.

Despite its high cost, portable X-ray devices use thulium that has been bombarded in a nuclear reactor as a radiation source.

Despite its incomplete state, the Jerusalem Talmud remains an indispensable source of knowledge of the development of the Jewish Law in Israel.

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, however, Mosaic was never released as open source software during its brief reign as a major browser ; there were always constraints on permissible uses without payment.

Despite its name, this software is not distributed under the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), opting for its own more restrictive open source license instead.

Despite the lack of universal agreement upon definition for determining a stream's source, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution agree that a stream's source should be considered as the most distant point ( along watercourses from the river mouth ) in the drainage basin from which water runs.

Despite his importance for the period, Dexippus has been declared a " poor " source by the modern historian David S. Potter.

Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani, and some encouraging notable victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea, and to her ally Florence ; they were eventually overcome by the forces of Milan under the leadership of Francesco Sforza.

Despite all these notable successes in diagnostics and detection techniques ectopic pregnancy remains a source of serious maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in countries with poor prenatal care.

Despite Mercator's fame as a cartographer, his main source of income came through his craftsmanship of mathematical instruments.

Despite the Hong Kong laserdisc being NTSC, it has a 4 % faster running time due to its PAL source, and thus also suffers from " frame ghosting ".

Despite increasing salinization, the springs remain an important source of drinking water for Bahrain.

Despite the fact that the early Christian theologian Tertullian wrote that Jesus was a eunuch, there is no corroboration in any other early source.

Despite years of effort and the occasional hoax ( i. e. cold fusion ), no man-made fusion reaction has produced more energy than it consumed and been a viable source of electricity.

Despite Moline's small size, Deere saw several promising elements there: Moline's dam and coal deposits would provide a good source of power ; Moline was near the other well-established towns of Stephenson ( later renamed Rock Island ) in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa ; and Moline's access to the river would make shipping goods cost-efficient.

Despite its inherent association with extremely flammable substances and objects with a pointed tip traveling at high speeds, model rocketry historically has proven to be a very safe hobby and has been credited as a significant source of inspiration for children who eventually become scientists and engineers.